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40 Weird Facts About The United States That Are Almost Too Crazy To Believe
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The following are 40 weird facts about the United States that are
almost too crazy to believe....
#3 The state of Alaska is 429 times larger than the state of Rhode Island
is. But Rhode Island has a significantly larger population than Alaska does.
#5 Approximately 48 percent of all Americans are currently either
considered to be "low income" or are living in poverty.
#7 In the UK, an average of about $3,500 is spent on healthcare per
person each year. In the United States, an average of about $8,500 is spent on healthcare per person each
year.
#11 The United States has 845 motor
vehicles for every 1,000 people. Japan only has 593 for every 1,000
people and Germany only has 540 for every 1,000 people.
#12 The grizzly bear is the official state animal of California.
But no grizzly bears have been seen there since 1922.
#13 For many years it was the other way around, but today a majorityof all Americans (including Pat Robertson) actually support
the legalization of marijuana.
#15 In the middle of the last century, the United States was #1 in the world in GDP per capita.
Today, the United States is #13 in GDP per capita.
#17 One survey found that 25 percent of all employees that have
Internet access in the United States visit pornography websites while
they are at work.
#18 In 2011, our trade deficit with China was more than 49,000 times larger than it was back in 1985.
#20 The city of Juneau, Alaska is about 3,000
square miles large.
It is actually bigger than the entire state of Delaware.
#21 The United States puts a higher percentage of its population in
prison than any other nation on earth does.
#22 There are more unemployed workers in the United States than there
are people living in the entire nation of Greece.
#26 Back in 1950, more than 80
percent of all men
in the United States had jobs. Today, less than 65
percent of all men
in the United States have jobs.
#27 According to author Paul Osterman, about 20 percent of all U.S. adults are currently
working jobs that pay poverty-level wages.
#28 According to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York,approximately 167,000 Americans have more than $200,000 of student
loan debt.
#30 There are 313 million people living in the United States. 46
million of them are on food stamps.
#32 In 1940, 68.0% of all women in the 20 to 34 year old age group in
the United States were married. In 2010, only 39.2% of women in that age group were married.
#33 The United States has a teen pregnancy rate of 22 percent - the highest in the world. New
Zealand is number two at 14 percent.
#34 According to the CDC, there are 19 million new cases of syphilis, gonorrhea and
chlamydia in the United States every single year.
#35 The United States has the highest divorce rate on the globe by a wide margin.
Puerto Rico is number two. Perhaps Puerto Rico really would fit in as the
51st state.
#36 More people have been diagnosed with mental
disorders in the
United States than in any other nation on earth.
#37 The United States has more government debt per capita than Greece, Portugal, Italy, Ireland
or Spain.
#38 If Bill Gates gave every single penny of his fortune to the U.S.
government, it would only cover the U.S. budget deficit for about 15
days.
#39 The U.S. national debt is now more
than 22 times larger than
it was when Jimmy Carter became president.
#40 It took from the founding of the nation until 1981 for the U.S.
national debt to cross the one trillion dollar mark. Today, our national
debt is well over 15 trillion dollars and we add more than a trillion dollars
to our debt every single year.
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